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Climate trends and glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, revisited

Schauwecker, S. ; Rohrer, M. ; Acuña, D. ; Cochachin, A. ; Dávila, L. ; Frey, H. ; Giráldez, C. ; Gómez, J. ; Huggel, C. ; Jacques-Coper, M. ; Loarte, E. ; Salzmann, Nadine ; Vuille, M.

In: Global and Planetary Change, 2014, vol. 119, p. 85–97

The total glacial area of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, has shrunk by more than 30% in the period of 1930 to the present with a marked glacier retreat also in the recent decades. The aim of this paper is to assess local air temperature and precipitation changes in the Cordillera Blanca and to discuss how these variables could have affected the observed glacier retreat between the 1980s and...